Geoff Thompson ESFLA Young Scholar Bursary

In honour of Geoff Thompson’s immense contributions to Systemic Functional Linguistics, the European Systemic Functional Linguistics Association sponsors a bursary each year for the European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference. The bursary provides support for a young scholar whose conference paper shows exceptional scholarship within Systemic Functional Linguistics

Applications for 2024: The Geoff Thompson bursary will be awarded to the top paper chosen from the pool of applicants by the ESFLA Committee. The bursary covers the full conference fee for the 33rd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, organized by Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. The bursary recipient will also receive a certificate of award.

To be eligible, you must be a current Ph.D. student and have a paper accepted for the conference, for which you are the sole author.

To apply: Send an email to esflc33@gmail.com  and include:

1. A copy of the acceptance email from the conference;

2. The title and abstract of the paper as they appear in the conference programme (as a word.doc) anonymised (your name removed).

3. A brief summary of no more than 300 words explaining how your paper furthers the work within SFL (also anonymised).

4. Proof of current PhD. status.

Closing date: 1st April, 2024

Notification of results: You will be notified of the decision by 7th April, 2024

Further inquiries: Please send any queries about the bursary to esflc33@gmail.com.

The recipient of the Geoff Thompson bursary for 2024 is Ms. Maria Bîrlea, Phd student at University of Salamanca with the proposal A ‘Multimodal Turn’ to Teaching Systemic Functional Grammar in an Undergraduate Classroom